Hold on, the system and I have never been angry

The place was a mess.

There were countless dead bodies floating on the Bi Bo Lake, including those of human monks and various monsters.

There are many souls in the air who have regained consciousness after losing their resentment and are now at a loss.

Xuanmeng was busy cleaning up the mess, and Sui Guanxian's move was so terrifying that they didn't dare to get close, so no one dared to speak out to stop him.

So these people had no choice but to surround the city lord who brought a few people here and ask questions non-stop, but the city lord didn't know the answer to any of the questions.

Without caring about the subsequent developments, Sui Guanxian took a few disciples back to the City Lord's Mansion first, fed each of them a pill, told them to "take good care of themselves", and took Lu Jinchao back to the room.

Inside the house, she circled around the little apprentice, but he just didn't look at her straight in the eye. She couldn't help but laugh: "Are you angry?"

Lu Jinzhao closed his eyes and meditated on the bed: "No."

"You scolded me so harshly, and yet you still said no."

Qiansui groaned: "What's wrong with scolding you? I still want to beat you up!"

"Really?" Sui Guanxian smiled and approached Qiansui on the table. Ignoring its fierce meowing, he poked a finger into its throat, successfully making it gag.

Chitose breaks the defense: "Asshole! Stinky fish!"

Sui Guanxian glanced at it calmly: "Stinky cat."

The sum of the ages of these two non-humans divided by two is also the same as their ancestors'. They are so childish that he cannot concentrate on his training. The veins on Lu Jinchao's forehead are bulging and he wants to throw them out together.

Sensing this change in mentality, the two looked at him as if he were a heartless man. Sui Guanxian pretended to wipe away tears: "When you liked me, you called me baby, but when you don't like me anymore, you throw me out. You have such a cruel heart."

Qiansui nodded repeatedly in agreement: "That's right! A scumbag host who gets bored easily with the old and loves the new."

Lu Jinzhao: “…”

"Come on, I'll take you to see something interesting." Sui Guanxian held the cat's head in the crook of his left arm and the head of his little disciple in his right hand. He summoned a teleportation array in front of him and arrived at an orange-red space in the blink of an eye.

"Oh my god! There are so many ghosts!" Qiansui was so scared that he shrank into Lu Jinchao's sleeve.

In this strange orange-red space, everything seemed to be soaked in blood. A thick orange-red light filled the air, sometimes as thick as the hideous color of blood, making people shudder.

Countless ghosts were wandering around in the space. They were in various shapes, some were hunched, some had hideous and twisted faces, and some had sharp fangs. Some of these ghosts seemed to still be conscious.

In this horrible world, scenes of ghosts eating ghosts are constantly played out. Ghosts bite and tear each other apart, making chilling roars and shrill screams. In order to compete for power and the opportunity to survive, they devour each other by any means necessary, and blood and violence fill every corner.

There were a lot of broken walls and ruins floating in the air, like the remains of a once glorious civilization. They were drifting slowly, and under the orange-red light, they looked even more dilapidated and desolate.

At the bottom, there are the remains of an entire village. The once neatly-knit houses are now in ruins, with collapsed walls and caved-in roofs, as if they had experienced an unimaginable disaster.

Those who once lived here may have already become part of these ghosts, their souls trapped forever in this place full of despair.

Occasionally, ghosts would pass through, and those that were still conscious would wander among the remains of the village, seemingly looking for something.

"Whoa--" Sui Guanxian whistled, and the ghosts gathered together and turned into an extremely huge ghost, whose body was as big as dozens of buildings. Lu Jinchao and Sui Guanxian were not even as big as half of its eyeball in front of it.

Qiansui took a look and recognized it as the ghost hand that had previously captured the giant beast from Bi Bo Lake. It shrank tightly into its host's sleeve, with only a pair of eyes sticking out. "Stinky fish, you're not going to feed us both to it, are you?!"

"That's a good idea." Sui Guanxian was about to come over and pick up Qiansui, "It just so happens that it has never eaten the system, and you are a rare thing."

Chitose was so frightened that he clung to his host with his four claws and refused to let go: "Help, Brother Chao!!"

Lu Jinzhao couldn't do anything with the two of them, so he sighed helplessly: "Stop making trouble."

The huge ghost squatted down cautiously and stretched out his palm. On it was the giant beast lurking in the Bi Bo Lake, which was now dying.

"Who...are you exactly...I will never let you go..." The ghost cultivator was not dead yet.

"Tsk." Sui Guanxian stretched out his hand to pull out the soul of the ghost cultivator, and searched his soul by the way. Seeing that he obtained the secret method of ghost cultivation purely by chance and did not spread it to others, he crumpled him into a ball with disdain and threw him into the mouth of the evil spirit: "Seventh level, barely edible, eat it."

Lu Jinzhao looked around the giant beast that was breathing out more than it was breathing in, and asked, "Is this what you wanted?"

"Yes." Sui Guanxian took out a bottle of potion and sprinkled it on the giant beast. Soon, the dark and hard skin of the giant beast cracked and turned back to a light green color with a slippery jelly texture. It regained its vitality and took the initiative to rub against Sui Guanxian, but Sui Guanxian slapped it away.

Except for herself, all other creatures were at a loss.

Why slap it after saving it?

Sui Guanxian clapped his hands in disdain and explained to his young apprentice, "It is written in the Jiuzhou Yiwenlu that after a ghost cultivator devours enough living souls, there is a very low chance that a ghost spirit will be born when he transcends the tribulation. I have seen four of them in total, and they were all born differently, none of them suited my taste. This one was hiding in the Dead Man Lake and refused to come out. I thought the water was dirty, so I wanted to wait for it to show up on its own, but who knew it would be another ugly one."

After hearing her words, before the others could react, the ghost tiger swam away crying, and its whimpering cry lingered in their ears for a long time.

Calling someone ugly in person hurts their self-esteem.

"......???" Qiansui's CPU turned for a long time: "No, you just want to bet on a good-looking pet?"

"Am I such a superficial person?"

"Aren't you?" Chitose said sarcastically.GIF: "You look in the mirror every day, no matter what. I know you are very beautiful, but being conceited and cocky is really not advisable, girl."

"Stupid cat." Sui Guanxian slapped Qiansui's head in the air, "In the cultivation world, the more likable an animal is, the cleaner and purer the spiritual energy it absorbs is, which is linked to its innate strength. Except for mutants, there are no exceptions. Even mutants usually mutate in a worse direction. I have only seen one that becomes stronger and stronger in tens of thousands of years."

Chitose said, "Who is it?"

Sui Guanxian pointed at himself: "I."

Chitose: "...Narcissism is a disease."

Lu Jinzhao listened for a while, pointed at the huge ghost that had been squatting for a long time and looked very pitiful, and asked: "What is it?"

Sui Guanxian tilted his head back slightly, his eyes drifting upwards, as if recalling something: "Well, it's a long story."

Chitose: "Then let me make it short."

"forget."

Chitose: “…You did it on purpose, didn’t you?”

"If I remember correctly, it should be a domain space opened up by a ghost cultivator. After I kill him, the space will naturally belong to me." Sui Guanxian summoned the teleportation array, "Who would specifically remember the things of their defeated generals?"

Just as I returned to the room, the City Lord's Housekeeper came and knocked on the door: "Dear guest, someone wants to see you."

Lu Jinzhao: “Who is it?”

"I don't know, but that person said he was from Xuanmeng."

The event was ruined, and no champion was finally decided. But Xuanmeng was quite considerate, holding the prize of the competition in both hands and running to the City Lord's Mansion to present the treasure.

The city lord, Lan Huailin, and the outer disciples gathered together, filling the main hall of the city lord's mansion.

The Xuanmeng sent an old man with a white beard, which was longer than his face. He spoke a lot of social etiquette. Qiansui summarized it into three key points:

One is to thank Sui Guanxian for saving everyone present, preventing any lives from being lost near the Bi Bo Lake and preventing their Xuan League from having its reputation ruined.

Second, after investigation, it was learned that almost all the people trafficked by the Cui Mansion were bought by the ghost cultivator. Women and children have relatively heavy yin energy and are more suitable for refining into resentful spirits. The female ghost was abducted and sold during her lifetime and gave birth to several children, but in the end the children were also abducted. She was full of resentment and slaughtered the entire Cui Mansion. Because they were stronger than ordinary resentful spirits, they were taken away by the ghost cultivator. As for Old Li and Aunt Liu's children, they were just unlucky people captured by the ghost cultivator to make up the numbers.

The third is to ask Sui Guanxian to join Xuanmeng.

Xue Yiting turned sideways and asked Bai Chao beside him: "Brother Bai, what are the benefits of joining the Xuan League?"

Bai Chao thought about it carefully: "It's probably some resource exchange and information sharing. For example, sometimes when a new secret realm is discovered, Xuanmeng will organize various sects to go in and explore. The survival rate is much higher than fighting alone, but usually a part of the proceeds must be handed over, similar to protection fees."

Xi Moxuan also pricked up his ears to join in the whispering: "Then after we join, do we not have to worry about being harassed by other nearby sects? I see that the Wuji Sect has been making small moves recently, and Elder Yanfeng seems to be ready to attack their sect. I just don't know what the Sect Master's attitude is."

Sui Guanxian accepted the prize and rejected the proposal to join Xuanmeng on the spot.

The white-bearded old man's expression changed more brilliantly than an LED light. He drank the tea in the cup in one breath, took a deep breath, and then said, "Excuse me, is there anything that our Xuanmeng has not done well enough? If you join the Xuanmeng, your sect can share the resources of the Xuanmeng, which can bring many conveniences..."

Sui Guanxian's eyes revealed disdain under the silk thread: "Is it convenient for me or for you?"

The white-bearded old man was stunned: "My friend, what do you mean by this?"

"We are all thousand-year-old foxes, don't play Liao Zhai here." Sui Guanxian said sarcastically, "You just want to win me over, pretending to give my sect some petty profits, and then let me complete some difficult tasks for you under various pretexts. If you succeed, you will get rich, and if you fail, I will die. There will be no loss for you, and my sect's territory can be divided up by you. Do I need to be more blunt and unpleasant?"

The old man blew his beard and glared: "You! Ignorant boy, how shameless you are!"

The city lord quickly came out to smooth things over. "Calm down, you two, calm down. Let's talk it out. Let's talk it out! Don't hurt the harmony!"

On one side is an unknown strong man, and on the other side is the Xuanmeng manager. He can't afford to offend either side. It's really worrying. Why is he talking so harshly for no reason? Just agree to him, it won't hurt...

"You see, Xuanmeng is very sincere and has prepared such a valuable treasure for you. Even if you don't like it, you shouldn't say such harsh words. More friends mean more paths, right?"

"A valuable treasure?" Sui Guanxian immediately opened the box handed to him by the Xuanmeng manager and threw it on the ground. "What do you mean by giving me a broken stone? Are you looking down on me?"

The old man with white beard quickly stood up and picked up the stone, feeling extremely distressed: "Young people really don't know the value of things! This is the essence of the star!"

Mantou came out from Sui Guanxian's sleeve, approached the stone and sniffed it, saying with contempt: "Old man, are you blind? This is not the Star Spirit Essence at all, it's just a fake stone. If you don't believe me, cut it open. The real Star Spirit Essence has a flowing viscous liquid inside, which is milky white and hardens and becomes translucent after being left to dry. Yours is obviously a fake."

The old man with white beard wanted to argue a little more, but when he saw that Mantou was a monster with a natural talent for treasure hunting, he was a little unsure for a moment. He hesitated again and again, but finally couldn't bear to cut it open on the spot: "This... is abrupt. The Star Spirit is too precious. I can't dispose of it casually. Please allow me to take it back to the Xuan League and let the leader decide."

"Whatever." Sui Guanxian stroked Mantou's chin with his fingers and let it return to his sleeve, "I'm tired."

"Sorry to bother you, young friend. Goodbye." The old man with white beard left awkwardly.

Sui Guanxian stood up and took Lu Jinchao's hand, wanting to leave, but Lan Huailin grabbed his young disciple's sleeve - he couldn't get close to Sui Guanxian, so he had to settle for the next best thing and grabbed Lu Jinchao's.

Seeing that Lu Jinchao was speechless, Bai Chao rushed over and pulled Lan Huailin away: "What do you want to do? I told you not to mess with them! You can't beat them, and your father can't beat them either!"

Lan Huailin cleared his throat and said a little embarrassedly: "This Highness also wants to join your sect."

Zuo Shishi, Xue Yiting, Xi Moxuan: "What???"

Sui Guanxian pinched Lan Huailin's chin and glanced at him, "No."

Lan Huailin had a bright red fingerprint on his chin, and he was full of dissatisfaction: "Why?! If Bai Chao can go, why can't I go?! My family is richer than his, and I am more talented than him, why don't you accept me!"

The family is rich... then wouldn't it be possible to cheat the two money-eating things at Danfeng and Qifeng? Lu Jinchao had an idea and pulled Sui Guanxian's sleeve to stop her from talking. "Because it's not the enrollment period now, you can come back in half a year."

"No!" Lan Huailin said excitedly, "If I go half a year later, wouldn't I be one grade lower than Bai Chao? I want it now, you can arrange for me to join the class!"

Lu Jinzhao wanted to laugh: "Then what benefit can you give me?"

Lan Huailin gritted his teeth and said, "You name the conditions! I can get you whatever you want!"

Bai Chao pulled him and said, "Are you crazy? Didn't you look down on our sect before? What's the point of rushing to attack us now?"

Lan Huailin's face flushed immediately: "Don't worry about it, I must go anyway!"

The two cousins ​​were arguing, so Lu Jinchao just let him go. It just so happened that there were not many disciples at the moment, and having the prince around would also be good for the reputation of the sect. He just said that he could join the class, and there would be a final exam in half a year. If he failed, he would have to repeat the year. Lan Huailin agreed immediately.

After the hunting trips at Cui Mansion and Bi Bo Lake, the purpose of their study tour had been achieved, and everyone in the entire Duli City knew about their sect.

Every day, the city lord's mansion is visited by noble families and ordinary people who come to visit.

So they set off and returned to the sect’s headquarters.

Lan Huailin rode his flying spirit beast and landed in the small square of the disciples' residence. He looked around, covered his face with a feather fan, frowned and said, "It's so broken."

All the outer disciples present stiffened their fists.